Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals
9:00 am
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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If one were to look at the tax return of an average consultant based on the 0% to 30% rule for private practice, one would see scheduled employment income from the HSE and also private income. We have heard from the Revenue Commissioners and other bodies in both the finance committee and at this committee about Revenue operations to clamp down on practices put in place by consultants in respect of expenses and various other measures. Would it surprise Mr. Breslin if consultants' private income was found to be massively in excess of scheduled employment income from the HSE?